International Year for Disabled Persons

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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2 versions · 1977–1978

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1977A/RES/31/123International Year for Disabled Persons

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5 topics

Disability Prevention Equal Opportunity International Years Persons with Disabilities Rehabilitation

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs

Proclaims the year 1981 International Year for Disabled Persons, with the theme "full participation";

Decides to devote that year to the realization of a set of objectives, including:

Helping disabled persons in their physical and (a) psychological adjustment to society;

( b) Promoting all national and international efforts to provide disabled persons with proper assistance, training, care and guidance, to make available to them opportunities for suitable work and to ensure their full integration in society;

( c) Encouraging study and research projects designed to facilitate the practical participation of disabled persons in daily life, for example by improving their access to public buildings and transportation systems;

Educating and informing the public of the (d) rights of disabled persons to participate in and contribute to various aspects of economic, social and politic al life;

( e) Promoting effective measures for the prevention of disability and for the rehabilitation of disabled persons;

Invites all Member States and the organizations

concerned to give their attention to the establishment of measures and programmes to implement the objectives of the International Year for Disabled Persons;

Requests the Secretary-General to elaborate, in consultation with Member States, specialized agencies and the organizations concerned, and to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session a draft programme for the International Year for Disabled Persons;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-second session an item entitled "International Year for Disabled Persons".

I 02nd plenary meeting

16 December 1976

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